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Comment on Ukraine: Why so many African and Indian students were in the country

Hmm, yes.... but it doesn't impact the decision to go to Ukraine. Some of my friends got into elite Unis because they were LC (lower caste) and got affirmative action. I didn't bother checking my family history to see if I qualify, and applied the normal way. Affirmative action works only for Govt Unis. But the seats there are absurdly low. In 2006, when I applied, there were 600 desirable openings for new students in Engineering, but 400,000 applicants. Of the 600 seats, 300 were Affirmative Action. But 300, or 600 both are a drop in the bucket, and most students have to go to private Universities.

Good private Unis in India are expensive, and Affirmative Action doesn't help you pay. Unis in Russia, Kazakh, Ukraine offered cheaper education

In Urban India, most people don't know their caste, and it doesn't make a difference day to day. I think a lot of minority applicants are forging documents.

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masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Wow what a shit system. I'm sure there exist upper caste who were born poor. In the U.S. you can be born to three generations of trailer trash poor from some Irish settlers and you still get lumped in with the rich white people who own ranches and oil fields when applying to college or tech Jobs. Feels like the same bull shit.

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- goldenballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  You could always "indentify as..." Whatever ticks a box. It's about time people made a laughing stock of this bullshit.
  
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  - masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    
    You could always “indentify as…” Whatever ticks a box. It’s about time people made a laughing stock of this bullshit.
    
    No you can't. There is always a interview stage. I actually had an employer fill in my race for me. I picked
    
    Choose not to identify
    
    Because I don't want to be used as a statistic to support further racist affirmative action.
    
    Which I always do, and I looked at my profile and it had been changed to white male. Fucking sjw trash.
    
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    goldenballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    There's no such thing as "white".
    
    There has to be some way to resist, opt out, or create a parallel system.
    
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- iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Yup, its a joke. The openings are tiny, and gets halved by AA. Most students end up going to private colleges. Proves again Govt is shit at almost everything.
  
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